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BOOT BRUSH.

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CHARLES BOEOKH, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BOOT=BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,196, dated May 27, 1884. Application filed September 14, 1&83. (No model.) Patented in Canada October 10, 1883, No. 17,845.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BOEOKH, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BootBrushcs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of the invention is to devise a neat, compact boot-brush containing within one case a mud-brush, blacking-brush, and polishingbrush, with a tin of blacking ready for use; and it consists in the peculiar combinations and the construction and arrangement of parts, more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l is a perspective view of the brush complete. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of its case. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the polishing-brush, showing the blacking-tin fixed to the portion of the back to which the bristles are fastened. Fig. 4.- is a perspective view of that portion of the back to which the bristles forming the blacking and mud brushes are attached, and showing the recess within which the tin attached to the other half fits, as here inafter explained.

A is the polishing-brush, attached to the portion of the back marked B.

O is the mud-brush; and D, the blackingbrush, attached to the portion of the back marked E.

WVhen the two parts B and E, forming the back, are brought together, an ordinary bootbrush, as exhibited in Fig. 1, is made, the projection F on the portion of the back marked E forming the cover to the tin G, which is attached to the portion of the back marked 13.

A recess made in the portion of the back marked E permits the tin G to pass through the back E, and is covered or closed by the cover F, which, as shown, projects on the outside of the portion of the back marked E.

H is a tin open at both ends, and designed to receive the brush when put together as shown in Fig. l. \Vhen the brush thus put together is inserted within the case, a neat portable article is produced, and the brush thus inclosed may be packed in a portmanteau without fear of soiling the clothes contained therein.

hat I claim as my invention isl. A boot-brush having its back longitudinally divided in the center, one half carrying the polishingbrush and blacking-tin and the other half having attached thereto the black ing and mud brushes, and provided with a central recess having a cover, F, designed to fit over the blacking-tin, whereby the two halves may be detachably connected, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A boot-brush having the polishing-brush attached to one side of its back and the mud and blacking brushes attached to its other side, the back being divided inthe center and detachably connected together by the blackingtin, as specified, jointly with an open-ended tin case, H, arranged to hold the two parts of the brush together, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, geptember 8, 1883.

CHAS. BOEOKH.

In presence of- CHAS. O. BALDWIN, KENNETH MAOLEAN. 

